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Going, going, gone… #8
Ten of my favourite works at this week's Old Masters auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's in London
Jul 1
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News: an exhibition in Vilnius, two literary prizes, and some summer reading
A little more miscellaneous than usual but none the worse for that…
Jun 13
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News: Van Dyck: the European
A new exhibition and book trace the artist's journey from Antwerp to Genoa and London
May 20
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News: Bodleian acquires unique cache of Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton Vogue photographs
War-time darkroom scrapbook discovered after eighty years
Apr 9
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Books to look out for in March (part two)
New history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
Mar 31
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Books to look out for in March (part one)
New history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
Mar 20
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News: Ritual, people and power in 1930s West Africa
A pioneering French ethnographic project in the kingdom of Dahomey
Mar 11
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Going, going, gone… #7
Ten of my favourite works at this week's auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's in London
Mar 7
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Nine books to look out for in February
Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
Feb 27
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News: a Mithraic temple in Scotland…
… and the Broken Compass in the pages of the TLS.
Feb 18
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Eight books to look out for in January
Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
Jan 31
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Merry Christmas from the Broken Compass
A round-up of everything I've written over the last twelve months
Dec 19, 2025
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